“Having himself severed the barriers of sorrow, now he is able to save his followers, and to provide the draught of immortality for all who are parched with thirst!  Armed with the heavy cuirass of patience, he has overcome all enemies! by the subtle principles of his excellent law to satisfy every heart.  Planting a sacred seed in the hearts of those practising virtue; impartially directing and not casting off those who are right or not right in their views!  Turning the wheel of the superlative law! received with gladness through the world by those who have in former conditions implanted in themselves a love for religion, these all saved by his preaching!  Going forth among men converting those not yet converted; those who had not seen the truth, causing them to see the truth!  All those practising a false method of religion, delivering to them deep principles of his religion! preaching the doctrines of birth and death and impermanency; declaring that without a master teacher there can be no happiness!  Erecting the standard of his great renown, overcoming and destroying the armies of Mara! advancing to the point of indifference to pleasure or pain, caring not for life, desiring only rest!  Causing those not yet converted to obtain conversion! those not yet saved to be saved! those not yet at rest to find rest! those not yet enlightened to be enlightened!

“Thus the Muni taught the way of rest for the direction of all living things! alas! that any transgressing the way of holiness should practise impure works.  Even as at the end of the great kalpa, those holding the law who die, when the rolling sound of the mysterious thunder-cloud severs the forests, upon these there shall fall the rain of immortality.  The little elephant breaks down the prickly forest, and by cherishing it we know that it can profit men; but the cloud that removes the sorrow of the elephant old-age, this none can bear.  He by destroying systems of religion has perfected his system, in saving the world and yet saving! he has destroyed the teaching of heresy, in order to reach his independent mode of doctrine.

“And now he enters the great quiet place! no longer has the world a protector or saviour! the great army host of Mara-raga, rousing their warrior, shaking the great earth, desired to injure the honored Muni:  but they could not move him, whom in a moment now the Mara ‘inconstancy’ destroys.  The heavenly occupants everywhere assemble as a cloud! they fill the space of heaven, fearing the endless birth and death! their hearts are full of grief and dread!  His Deva eyes clearly behold, without the limitations of near or distant, the fruits of works discerned throughout, as an image perceived in a mirror!  His Deva ears perfect and discriminating throughout, hear all, though far away, mounting through space he teaches all the Devas, surpassing his method of converting men!  He divides his body still one in substance, crosses the water as if it were not